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Unit 4: The Cell and its Environment

This is an example for an imageEssential Question 1: How is the cell the basic unit of life?

Essential Question 2: How do materials enter and leave cells?

Homework

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893 – 1986) a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

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CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES

Initial Understanding:

  • Describe the discovery of cells and the development of cell theory.

Developing an Interpretation:

  • Analyze the various structures and functions of the cell and its membrane

Making Connections:

  • Demonstrate the various ways that substances enter and leave cells.

Taking a Critical Stance:

  • Compare and contrast the processes of passive and active transport.